I’m going to be honest. I had two distinct directions to go from the point where Claw eliminated Scarvok – two different story outlines. I wavered for quite some time deciding which one to use. I just saw more potential going this route.
Now let’s get back to being funny.
By Rhys Sun Jul 10th 2016 at 11:24 pm
I cannot applaud enough this page. Hits so many amazing notes.
By Ron Edwards Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 12:32 am
Buddies forever!
By Tigershark06 Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 2:28 am
Yes but did she affect her future the way she wanted to? And what kind of pardox is this going to be if young and future Kaley are in the same timeline?
By wilder125 Thu Jul 14th 2016 at 3:41 pm
Might not. She’s recorded as dead. As long as history continues to record future self as dead, it should be safe.
By CK Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 4:10 am
Aaawwww, so sweet! Yeah, I was kinda hoping for this, even if it does bring up all those paradox problems, and is a little sappy.
Still want to see the news coverage of what Claw did to evil alien attacker Scarvok!
By RazorD9 Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 4:20 am
They are the best of friends as far as arch-nemesi can be.
By disaster Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 1:01 pm
so basically ultimo might have destroyed the space time continuum and or the universe just now?
By Poetically Psychotic Thu Jan 18th 2018 at 10:39 pm
If you let an innocent die because you’re afraid of the future, you lose the right to call yourself a hero. Besides, it was never going to cause a reality destroying paradox, so the risk isn’t actually all that bad.
By Sabreur Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 3:22 pm
Claw’s family breaks time and space for a living. If the timeline has it out for them, the timeline can go DIAF.
This page is awesome. Especially that last panel.
By Matterthief Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 4:03 pm
I hope young Kaley is okay. People really need to realize that the Time Traveling Version of yourself from an alternate time line is NOT actually you, just the you that did not take stupid risks and died thinking they were invulnerable.
By Marscaleb Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 7:31 pm
I’m honestly a little upset that you did this.
Alternate future Kaylee was such an easy kill. She can’t truly die because she’s still alive and is going to grow up.
But nope! Now we’re doing the dumb “No real heroic sacrifice and here is this super easy save that she would have known about but didn’t let happen for some reason.”
…*sigh* Oh well. Let’s get back to funny.
By Zappit Mon Jul 11th 2016 at 11:37 pm
I could’ve left it with Future Kaley gone for good, but like I said, there was more opportunities for good stories keeping her around, even if it’s way, way off in the background. Trust me, there’s a bigger plan here.
By Otaku Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 3:34 am
Plus the notion that Future Kaley cannot truly die because of Present Kaley seems like faulty logic.
If they are truly the same being, then yes you are killing Kaley. It is just that we are seeing her life out of order. So like when you see the beginning of a film, something happens so you leave, then come back and see the end of it, the movie is still over. You may not be finished with it since there is a middle part you have yet to experience, but you can’t really experience as was intended and you’ll have at least a good idea of how it has to unfold.
If they are not truly the same being, then yes you are killing Future Kaley because Present Kaley is someone else. Whether you view them as having been the same person until a difference in the timeline split them into two or whether you view them as two different people entirely who happen to have a large portion of their experience shared because they are from parallel timelines that from her perspective were identical until a key event that ultimately led to her growing up as she did and then traveling back in time… yeah, Future Kaley is still dead either way because Present Kaley ain’t her. =P
By Marscaleb Mon Jul 18th 2016 at 6:42 am
For someone going in to so much detail, you have missed a surprisingly big cue of the phrase “truly die.” It is an ambiguous statement. It was deliberately chosen as such.
The ambiguity is not revolving around whether they are two different people or not, but rather over the ambiguity of what “truly die” means.
By CatKaj Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 7:50 pm
I am truly in awe of how you didn’t get pissed off (or expressed your pissed-offness) at that critical (but very honest) comment and merely gave the very satisfying explanation/justification of a “bigger plan”.
There are not very many people like that… I wish I were like that.
By Zappit Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 9:15 pm
Everyone’s entitled to his/her opinion, and that one didn’t come off as hostile. I knew going in this would probably be a controversial move, so I was ready for just about any kind of feedback. Like I said, this was a hard move for me, too, to the point I produced two different outlines for where the SV universe goes after this invasion. It took a lot of planning and consideration, and I felt this move would give me more story opportunities. Not everyone was gonna like this, but I’m hoping everyone WILL enjoy what comes next.
By zibodiz Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 2:43 am
Letting her die would’ve been an obvious plot point. This is a twist I did not see coming.
By Kaian Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 10:00 am
Ultimo saving future Kaley puts him squarely back in the hero category and I approve heartily.
By that_jedi_girl Wed Jul 13th 2016 at 2:09 pm
With the caveat that time travel thinking gives me a headache (and I’m relying on memory) – didn’t Future Kaley talk about how in the future Ultimo and Claw are friends? My take was that this is the origin point for that friendship. And Future Kaley being rescued was thus always part of the time stream. Maybe Future Kaley stays in a coma (and thus was unaware that she is saved), maybe she goes off and has another adventure and gets amnesia (and thus doesn’t remember that she’s saved), or is kidnapped, or something happens that makes the knowledge that she survived be something that is kept from Present Kaley. In any event, I could come up with a variety of reasonable (to me) explanations of why this works. I didn’t expect her to be saved (and was – Wow! – when it happened) but this being a (super) comic, important characters rarely stay dead (as Claw observed re: Ultimo). I thought it was well done (and loved that it was Ultimo who did it).
By Poetically Psychotic Thu Jan 18th 2018 at 10:48 pm
Interesting thought: Present!Kaley is actually probably right about being unable to die. The universe is still trying to force itself down onto the doomed timeline Future!Kaley is from, and to do that it needs her to survive. If they manage to dissociate from that and avert the bad timeline (for instance if Future!Kaley had died like she planned), she’ll lose that protection, but until then she’s safe. Of course, how will they know if/when they’ve definitively dissociated from that timeline?